After dividing snake plant in autumn, add a little "secret weapon" to the pot, and 5 shoots sprout in 2 weeks
As people's living standards improve and get better, more and more friends like to keep some flowers and plants at home. Not only can they beautify the room, but they can also purify the air. And keeping some green potted plants at home, tending the flowers and plants in ordinary leisure time, and cultivating body and mind, is not only good for the family's health, but can also make the person who grows the flowers healthier in body and mind.
Friends who like growing flowers are all willing to try keeping all kinds of potted flowers at home, especially for the flowers they already liked before, they may even want to grow more. Like the snake plant (Sansevieria trifasciata) shared with everyone today, it is a green foliage plant that many people like. Not only does it have striped leaves, but when grown indoors the snake plant is upright and sturdy, can absorb residual formaldehyde in the room, purify the air, and release oxygen. If you have a pot of snake plant at home, through proper care later on you can make the plant grow more side shoots, and then carry out division propagation to get more potted snake plants.
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Want to "split up" your snake plant? In autumn, add a little "secret weapon" to the pot, and 5 shoots sprout in 2 weeks!
When the snake plant is kept at home, the normal propagation methods are leaf-cutting propagation and division propagation. Small seedlings from snake plant division propagation grow sturdy and have a relatively fast growth rate. Every year when dividing, you can not only dig out the small seedlings and replant them in pots, but for the mother plant it is also a good time to change the pot and soil. So splitting up the snake plant is not only good for the growth of the mother plant, but also lets you get more snake plant seedlings.
How do you make the snake plant sprout more side shoots?
If you want to split up your snake plant, you definitely need to make it grow more side shoots, and then wait until the side shoots grow bigger before you can divide them to get more snake plants. If you want the snake plant to grow more side shoots, then during the growing process you should especially pay attention to fertilizing, watering and light, especially fertilizing, because the snake plant really likes nitrogen fertilizer. Only after absorbing nitrogen fertilizer can it promote the growth of roots and side shoots and make the plant grow more small seedlings.
In the process of growing flowers, the main sources of nitrogen fertilizer are inorganic nitrogen fertilizers such as: quick-acting compound fertilizer and urea. But today I recommend a common kitchen nitrogen fertilizer, which is the waste oil from the range hood in the kitchen. Every household cleans out the waste oil in the range hood after a period of time. In fact, this waste oil is the rapeseed oil or peanut oil absorbed by the range hood when cooking and stir-frying at home. Everyone knows that oils are rich in nitrogen, and of course this range hood waste oil is no exception. So every time you clean the range hood, you can take out the waste oil from it and use it to supplement nitrogen fertilizer for the snake plant.
Generally, the waste oil in the range hood can be used directly to supplement nitrogen fertilizer for the snake plant. The method of use is to use a flower trowel to dig two holes at the edge of the snake plant's pot. Then pour one spoonful of oil into each, and bury them. The fertilizing spot should be far from the snake plant's roots, to prevent the waste oil from fermenting and burning the plant's roots. The fertilizer fully ferments in the soil, maintaining it, renewing it in batches, and providing rich nutrients. Generally after one week it will ferment fully. In two weeks you will see side shoots emerging from the snake plant.
In the process of growing the snake plant, you should also pay attention to watering and light. The snake plant likes to grow in soil that is breathable and permeable to water, so water thoroughly each time, do not let water accumulate in the pot, and just keep the soil slightly dry. The snake plant is a plant that likes light. Indoors, it is best to move it to a place with direct sunlight, which can promote photosynthesis, absorb nutrients, and grow more side shoots. Next year you can split up the snake plant and get more potted snake plants. You can also split up the potted snake plant and give them to neighbors, relatives and friends, which is also a very meaningful thing.
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